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Glass windows?I’m certainly not buying the Faraday cage argument. If the car was an effective barrier to RF at the frequencies used by a mobile, you’d not be able to make calls in the car.
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Glass windows?I’m certainly not buying the Faraday cage argument. If the car was an effective barrier to RF at the frequencies used by a mobile, you’d not be able to make calls in the car.
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IIRC, my app says to stay the car to do the transaction.
Back in the day when I was a humble white van man, I delivered to several petroleum product processing/distribution sites. Before you were let anywhere near the main gate, there was normally a video safety briefing to undergo as well as checking your mobile phone in at reception along with any smoking materials -including the in cab cigarette lighter element. And absolutely only diesel powered vehicles allowed on site.Yet every oil company I have worked for (a few) will not allow a normal mobile on their productions sites.......IIRC, my app says to stay the car to do the transaction.
Back in the day when I was a humble white van man, I delivered to several petroleum product processing/distribution sites. Before you were let anywhere near the main gate, there was normally a video safety briefing to undergo as well as checking your mobile phone in at reception along with any smoking materials -including the in cab cigarette lighter element. And absolutely only diesel powered vehicles allowed on site.
Ah yes. The ‘high & mighty, I know everything about everyone, and how to do it better, ridicule brigade’? Plenty of those on MBClub.To often on this forum it seems that a lot of threads get derailed by posters picking up on such minor insignificant details and trying to lecture other posters or get the moral high-ground without reading the details properly or jumping to their own conclusions.
@SpikyMikeyThe worst refinery explosion in the US in recent times was triggered by a diesel powered vehicle (see 9:10 in the video below):
Good point, but at least I'm not standing at a pump with fuel pumping & petrol vapour pouring out the filler hole while jabbering on my phone or paying for my fuel. The app I use is all preauthorised before you can start filling your tank.And if you're in a convertible with the roof down?
When’s the last time you were in the Middle East ,Asia, Turkey, Eastern Europe ? I’ve seen plenty of people doing it here in the uk too.
At least no one was smoking at the filling station.
When we are all electric we can smoke and chat on the phone during the lengthy filling times.
This is quite a bold statement."Richard Coates, British Petroleum's fire safety officer, has investigated many of the 243 fires that over an 11-year period were attributed to mobiles. 'Mobile phones pose no petrol station hazard,' he said. 'There is nothing to worry about.'"
I don’t think he’s saying that it’s impossible, he’s saying that it’s unlikely and so there is nothing to worry about.This is quite a bold statement.
I don’t particularly want to argue with an expert, but isn’t it impossible to prove a negative? It’s just that it’s not happened yet, or could actually have happened in any of the rest of the 243 fires he hasn’t investigated.
Sorry, but I still won’t allow mobile phone use in my car while at a petrol station.
(Unrelated Trivia fact: 243MHz used to be - probably still is - the UHF emergency frequency for aviation)
Usually, yes.Glass windows?
Static is a serious potential(!) problem yet they didn’t ban shell suit wearers from petrol stations
NO hazard? NOTHING to worry about? Sounds categorical to me, a lot more than ‘unlikely’I don’t think he’s saying that it’s impossible, he’s saying that it’s unlikely and so there is nothing to worry about.
Hence the reason tor signs saying not to use phones on the forecourt; but it being fine to use them inside the car and shop/kiosk.
Hi , when I made deliveries to BAC Filton mobile phones were banned on site.I don’t think he’s saying that it’s impossible, he’s saying that it’s unlikely and so there is nothing to worry about.
Hence the reason tor signs saying not to use phones on the forecourt; but it being fine to use them inside the car and shop/kiosk.
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